> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://developer.harness.io/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai.md).

# Use Harness AI

- [AI Agents](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents.md)
- [Harness Agents](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents/harness-agents.md): Autonomous AI agents that run inside your pipelines — building, deploying, testing, remediating, and optimizing your software delivery lifecycle.
- [Building Custom Agents](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents/create-agent.md): Build, package, and register your own AI-powered agent plugins for Harness using Go and the Drone plugin architecture.
- [Harness AI DevOps Agent](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents/devops-agent.md): Harness AI DevOps Agent unlocks your pipeline productivity.
- [Harness AI Release Agent](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents/release-agent.md): Learn how to release features confidently with data and feature operations like deploying, targeting, and managing flags with the Harness AI Release Agent.
- [Harness AI Support Agent](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents/support-agent.md): Harness AI Support Agent provides instant answers to product and documentation questions.
- [Code Quality Agents](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents/code-agent.md): AI-powered agents for code review, test coverage generation, and CI failure remediation — all via pull requests.
- [Security Agents](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents/security-agent.md): AI-powered agents for vulnerability remediation and deployment failure analysis — Zero Day Remediation and Manifest Remediator.
- [Developer Productivity Agents](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ai-agents/productivity-agent.md): AI agents that automate tedious engineering workflows — feature flag cleanup, framework upgrades, and repository onboarding.
- [Use Cases](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/use-cases.md)
- [Harness AI Chat Use Cases](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/use-cases/harness-ai-chat-guide.md): Common Uses cases for Harness AI Chat
- [Troubleshoot builds and deployments with Harness AI](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/use-cases/ci-agent.md): Troubleshoot builds and deployments with Harness AI.
- [Optimize cloud costs using Harness AI](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/use-cases/ccm-agent.md): Learn how to use Harness AI for cloud asset governance.
- [Fix security vulnerabilities using Harness AI](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/use-cases/sto-agent.md): Enhanced remediation using Harness AI.
- [IDE & Integrations](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations.md)
- [MCP Server](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server.md)
- [Harness MCP Server](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/harness-mcp-server.md): Give AI agents full access to the Harness platform through 11 consolidated tools and 139 resource types using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- [Configure your AI client](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/configure-ai-clients.md): Add the Harness MCP Server to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, and Amazon Q Developer CLI using a Harness API key.
- [Harness Hosted MCP](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/hosted-mcp.md): Connect MCP-compatible clients to the Harness-managed MCP endpoint using OAuth through Harness ID, with no API key in your client configuration.
- [Self-hosted deployment](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/self-hosted-deployment.md): Run the Harness MCP Server with Docker, Kubernetes, or an MCP gateway, and serve multiple users over HTTP transport.
- [Environment variables reference](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/environment-variables.md): Full configuration reference for the Harness MCP Server, including identity, reliability, access control, logging, semantic search, and toolset filtering.
- [Tools reference](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/tools-reference.md): The 11 MCP tools exposed by the Harness MCP Server, with request examples, the pipeline run workflow, and MCP resource URIs.
- [Resource types](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/resource-types.md): All 139 Harness MCP Server resource types organized by toolset, with the CRUD operations and execute actions each one supports.
- [Prompt templates](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/prompt-templates.md): The 27 pre-built Harness MCP Server prompt templates for DevOps, FinOps, DevSecOps, and Harness Code workflows.
- [Approvals and safety](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/approvals-and-safety.md): How the Harness MCP Server confirms write operations through MCP elicitation, how risk-based auto-approve works, and which safeguards the server enforces.
- [Troubleshooting](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/mcp-server/troubleshooting.md): Resolve common Harness MCP Server errors and debug tool calls interactively with MCP Inspector.
- [Harness VS Code Extension](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/vscode-extension.md): Install the Harness VS Code Extension to monitor pipelines, view logs, manage approvals, and use AI-assisted debugging directly in Visual Studio Code.
- [Harness AI Cursor Plugin](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/cursor-plugin.md): Install the Harness AI plugin for Cursor to manage pipelines, debug deployments, and interact with Harness using natural language directly from your IDE.
- [Harness Skills](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/harness-skills.md): Claude Code skills for the Harness CI/CD platform — generate pipeline YAML, manage resources, debug failures, analyze costs, and more from natural language.
- [Anthropic Harness Connector](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/anthropic-harness-connector.md): Connect Harness to the Claude apps with the Anthropic Harness Connector so Claude can read and act on your pipelines, deployments, services, and costs using OAuth.
- [Harness AI x Gemini CLI Extension](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/3.0/use-harness-ai/ide-and-integrations/harness-gemini-extension.md): Leverage Gemini CLI with Harness AI MCP Server to unleash your developer workflows